Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-154) and index.
Contents:
The failure and promise of communion. "Whiteness visible": critical whiteness studies and O'Connor's fiction -- Race, politics, and the double mind: Flannery's correspondence versus O'Connor's fiction -- Theology, religion, and race: constant conversion and the beginning of vision -- "Africanist presence" and the role of Black bodies -- The failure and promise of communion.
Summary:
"Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor, the first book-length study of O'Connor's complex and sometimes troubling attitude towards race in her fiction and correspondence, contends that O'Connor's race-haunted writing serves as the literary incarnation of her uncertainty about the great question of her era and of her urgent need, despite considerable reluctance, to address the fraught relationship between the races"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Studies in the Catholic imagination: the Flannery O'Connor Trust series
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